Multiple record



(No Model.)

K. PENN. MULTIPLE RECORD.

No. 520,774. Patented. June 5, 1894.

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UNITED STATES.

PATENT OFFICE.

KATY FENN, OF CHICAGO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO KATE LAVVLOR, OF J OLIET,ILLINOIS.

MULTIPLE RECORD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 520,774, dated June5,1894;

Application filed March 22, 1 8 94.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, KATY FENN, a citizen of the United States, residingat Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented acertain new and useful Multiple EtecOrd, of which the following is aspecifica- My invention relates to a device which may be desirablyemployed for the accomplishment of various different purposes in orderto record and preserve the names of a number of different personscalling or to record and preserve communications.

My invention has for its object the provis ion of a device, simple andcompact in construction and occupying but little space, which device asawhole may be conveniently and readily secured in place upon a door, orother suitable place, and which device will present a sightly appearancewhen disposed 1n place, the means for accomplishing the above resultsbeing of such a character as that the members carrying the length ofpaper upon which the nameof the caller or communication is inscribed maybe removed and replaced from their supports in order to remove orreplace the lengths of paper, and one of which members holding andsupporting the paper, in conjunction with the other member, is of suchform as that a person may write the name or communication readily andconveniently upon the paper and by manually turning the said memberspresent an uninscribed portion of the paper for the nextper- .son and atthe same time preserve the completed record.

My invention consists in. a suitable base plate having an inclosingcover hinged thereon and a winding roller for supporting and carrying asuitable continuous length of paper, which rolleroperates in conjunctionwith a rotatable paper holding and supporting member having a flat faceor surface, serving as a plate beneath the paper stretched over saidface, so that the writer may readily and conveniently inscribe a name orcommunication upon the paper, the same being then manu ally wound uponthe roller aforesaid and thus preserved and an uninscribed portion ofthe paper at the same time brought into position upon the flat surfaceof the paper holding and Serial No.'504,738. (No model.)

supporting plate memberin readiness to again receive an inscription, thedevice being so constructed'as that both the roller and the plate membermay be readily removed and replaced relatively to their supports.

Reference may now be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure1 is a perspective view of the complete device the hinged cover beingthrown back. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 isa detail view showing more fully the means by which the roller and platemember are removably held.

A base plate A is provided having hinged thereto a suitable cover B.Projected from the base plate are the standards DD the standard D havingthe perforations d-d constituting the journals for the bearings 6-6,respectively for the roller E and the plate member G, the oppositebearings f-f of the said roller and plate member being held removablywithin the open journals gg on the standard D by means of the springpiece H secured at or near the center of its length to the said standardD so that each end portion of said spring piece H bears over, and uponthe bearings ff of the roller and the plate member. The plate member G,as is apparent, presents a flat surface, the continuous length of paperJ being wound about its edges and stretched over the fiat surfacethereof between its edges, so that a flat backing plate is providedalfording means whereby a person may readily and conveniently inscribe aname, address or any desired communication, and by turning the thumbwheel K secured on the roller E may then rotate said roller and at thesame time rotate the plate member G to withdraw the completedcommunication and preserve the same and at the same time present anuninscribed portion of the length of paper J to be again used as before.

In order to remove either one, or both the roller E and the plate memberG, it is simply necessary to raise the spring piece H at either or bothof its ends so that said roller and plate member may be withdrawn, theend edge of the plain uninscribed length of paper J being inserted inthe slot h of the plate member G and the paper wound about the same theremaining end edge thereof being inserted in the slot j of the roller Eand the said roller and plate member being then repositioned upon thestandards D and D the device being thus supplied with a clean and clearlength of paper.

It will be obvious that when the length of paper has been filled withcommunications the same may be withdrawn from the device and preserved,by the removal of the rollerE and the plate member G.

I provide supporting hooks L projected from the base plate A adapted tohold a pencil M within convenient proximity to the plate member G.

The continuous length of paper J may be perforated transversely atintervals in order to provide means by which the said lengths may besevered readily for the purpose of preserving each of the communieations sepa rately.

It will be also apparent that the device as a whole is compact and mayreadily be secured upon a door by means of screws passed throughthe baseplate, and adapted to be used readilyand conveniently to preserve arecord of a succession of callers, as well as to preserve a record ofany communications which it may be desired by any one to make byinscribing the same upon the continuous length of paper J.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is--- 1 In a multiple recordingdevice, a suitable base plate, a cover hinged thereto and standardsprojected therefrom, a winding roller adapted to be manually rotated towhich one end edge of a continuous length of paper is removably attachedand a flat plate supporting member also adapted for rotation about whichthe said continuous length of paper is wound and from which the paper isunwound and Wound upon the roller 1n the manual rotation of the latter,said plate supporting member by virtue of its [lat face over which thepaper is stretched serving as a backing.

2. In a multiple recording device, a suitable base plate, a cover hingedthereto and standards projected therefrom, a wind ng roller adapted tobe manually rotated to which one end edge of a continuous length ofpaper is removably attached, a flat plate supporting member also adaptedfor rotation about which the said continuous length of paper is Woundand from which the paper 15 unwound and wound upon the roller in themanual rotation of the latter, said plate supporting member by virtue ofits fiat surface over which the paper is stretched serving as a backing,and a spring piece bearing upon the ournals respectively of the rollerand the plate member at one side thereof whereby said roller and platemember may be removed and replaced relatively to their respectivestandards.

In testimony whereof I ailix mysignatu re in presence of twowitnesses.

KATY FENN. Witnesses:

C. C. BULKLEY, \V. 'I. TOMPKINS.

